Talk:Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment
This article is or was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Scotti mills. Peer reviewers: Azlizc.

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Course work
I am working on this page for the Public Policy course on Wikipedia. I have just posted the beginning of a paragraph on the page. Some of the information is repetitive of the opening stub, but I just wanted to get used to posting my own paragraph with a reference. I will be working on this page and changing things as they come along. I look forward to working with people on the successful posting of this project! Jones3sg (talk) 14:59, 17 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Glad to see some interest in this article. Until now it has hardly changed since I created the stub. Roger (talk) 15:57, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

Headings with no content
Creating empty sections on the "live" article page is a very bad idea. It violates the basic principle that an article must always be a coherent whole, even when it is just a short stub. "Bare scaffolding" should never be visible to the casual reader. You style of editing/writing would be much better suited to a WP:Sandbox, so I've created one here - Talk:Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act/Sandbox and moved your bare headings to it. Please continue editing there and as a section gets "publishable" content we can move it to the article page. BTW, I really like your ideas so far! Roger (talk) 19:58, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

Peer Review
Hey Stephen! I was looking over your article today and it looks like things are progressing nicely. I made a couple of minor edits and just have a few things for you. In the second intro paragraph, you write " The Special Litigation Section is allowed to investigate state or locally operated institutions in order to ascertain if there is a pattern or a practice of violations of the residents' federal rights." and then later expand on it in the "Background" section. It might be nice to add something about enforcement of laws to this before you cover what the law does not allow; ex. " The Special Litigation Section is allowed to investigate state or locally operated institutions in order to ascertain if there is a pattern or a practice of violations of the residents' federal rights. If a pattern of violations is found (something about enforcement)." Also, it could be cool if you found some information about rights of people in other types of facilities (in addition to Juvenile Correctional Facilities), or cases in which CRIPA was used. Great job so far! Barkerel (talk) 19:15, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Adding a few examples of prosecutions would be a good idea. I found this - http://www.leagle.com/xmlResult.aspx?xmldoc=In%20FCO%2020110315119.xml&docbase=CSLWAR3-2007-CURR - although the case was based primarily on a different law, CRIPA was relevant to determine some of the key aspects of the case.  Roger (talk) 06:36, 18 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the link! I am sure it will be useful! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jones3sg (talk • contribs) 16:34, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

What about other types of institutions?
This article only discusses correctional facilities in any detail but AFAIK the legislation also covers other types of institutions such as nursing homes. Roger (talk) 19:33, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes it does, and so far the information I have seen states correctional facilities, but it the act does extend to not only state run prisons and juvenile correctional facilities, but to nursing homes and mental facilities. I think the stress is on the institutionalized person tag that is given.  I am finishing stuff up for the class I was doing this project for, but I will continue to work with this page and that is one of the areas that I need to add information to.  The act looks at five specific state-run institutions and I hopefully will be able to add information to them down the line, but there is not much information out there.  Most of what I can find is focused on juvenile facilities.  Thank you for pointing this out to me though.  Stephen Jones Jones3sg (talk) 07:48, 5 May 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia Ambassador Program course assignment
This article is the subject of an educational assignment at James Madison University supported by WikiProject United States Public Policy and the Wikipedia Ambassador Program&#32;during the 2011 Spring term. Further details are available on the course page.

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